{"id":4011,"date":"2019-04-17T16:39:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T13:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.protectimus.com\/blog\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2025-09-09T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:59:07","slug":"litebit-2fa-with-hardware-token","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.protectimus.com\/blog\/litebit-2fa-with-hardware-token\/","title":{"rendered":"LiteBit 2FA with a hardware token"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LiteBit 2FA (two-factor authentication) is mandatory for its users. This cryptocurrency exchange pushes you to set up 2-factor authentication during registration and it’s impossible to skip this step. It is also impossible to disable two-factor authentication in LiteBit, you can only change one authentication method to another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, LiteBit 2FA offers only two options by default: SMS authentication or authenticator app. Neither of these two-factor authentication methods<\/a> can ensure maximum security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SMS authentication is vulnerable to SIM card replacement, smartphone viruses, and interception of one-time passwords by exploiting the cellular network vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authenticator apps<\/a> are also vulnerable to smartphone viruses. Also, people often lose smartphones or have to reset their devices back to factory default settings. This causes a lot of troubles with the recovery of all authentication tokens enrolled in authentication apps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We suggest you choosing hardware tokens for LiteBit 2FA instead. Fortunately, there are Protectimus Slim NFC<\/a> – programmable hardware TOTP tokens. Protectimus Slim NFC are made to replace authenticator apps on all websites that don’t offer hardware OTP tokens by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All you need to connect Protectimus Slim NFC token to your LiteBit account is an Android smartphone with NFC support and the token itself, of course: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Download the application Protectimus TOTP Burner<\/a> from Google Play.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Use this app to scan the QR code with the secret key.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Program the hardware token with this secret key via NFC.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    But let’s describe how to set up LiteBit 2FA with hardware token Protectimus Slim NFC in details.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    LiteBit 2FA with a hardware token Protectimus Slim NFC<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    1. Sign in to your account. To avoid phishing<\/a> make sure you use the right URL: https:\/\/www.litebit.eu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2. Go to account settings.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    3. Find 2FA settings.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    4. Click the button “Change your 2FA settings”.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    5. Either you use SMS authentication or Authenticator app, you’ll need to change your authentication method to another. Our goal here is to initiate the enrollment of a new secret key for the Authenticator app. So:<\/p>\n\n\n\n